Shaping up: spontaneous formation of ordered mesoscopic salt bowls†
Abstract
The spontaneous formation of hexagonally organized, mesoscopic salt-bowls is reported here by a simple heating of manganous sulphate salt with a polyvinylpyrrolidone
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Nanomaterials and Catalysis Laboratory, Chemistry and Physics of Materials Unit and DST Unit on Nanoscience, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Jakkur P.O., Bangalore, India
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The spontaneous formation of hexagonally organized, mesoscopic salt-bowls is reported here by a simple heating of manganous sulphate salt with a polyvinylpyrrolidone
K. S. Krishna, B. V. V. S. P. Kumar and M. Eswaramoorthy, RSC Adv., 2012, 2, 5947 DOI: 10.1039/C2RA20596C
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